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Spectacles of the street : performance, power, and public space in antebellum New Orleans

Frink, Sandra Margaret, 1967-The University of Texas at Austin2004

This dissertation uses New Orleans as a lens through which to examine the multiethnic, multi-racial, and multi-national social world of the nineteenth-century urban streets. It traces the alliances and conflicts that emerged as individuals, groups and the state asserted their political, cultural …

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